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Tech Smorgasbord Archives - 10

These items are an archive of past Topical Smorgasbord items that have appeared on the RF Cafe homepage. In keeping with
the "cafe" genre, these tidbits of information are truly a smorgasbord of topics. They all pertain to topics
that are related to the general engineering and science theme of RF Cafe.

1/2 the World's
New Buildingsare Built in China(source: Popular Science,
8/07)

China has built the equivalent of the U.S. highway system in a decade, and has surpassed
the U.S. to become the world's #1 emitter of green house gases. By 2025, 400M Chinese will move from the
countryside to the cities - the largest migration in world history. China is seeing a 10% increase in
GDP each year - 2x that of the U.S. during the DotCom boom. It adds the electricity use of Norway to its
grid every year. China last year produced 2.3B tons of coal, more than the U.S. and Russia combined. China
made 8% of world's emissions in 1980, up to 18% by 2004. It is home to 7 of the world's 10 dirtiest metropolises.

Following
deregulation and lifting of rate freezes, one couple in St. Louis, IL, got a bill for $1,024.31, up
from $172 a few months earlier. This is happening all over the country. Here are some recent rate increases:

State

Change from 2002 to 2006

Texas

57.7%

Mass.

55.6%

Conn.

53.2%

Rhode I.

47.9%

Florida

36.8%

Delaware

33.6%

D.C.

23.8%

U.S. Avg.

23.3%

It is a good thing for the bureaucrats that this is not
figured into inflation numbers.